Wishlist for 2025 for Outline View
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Pewter Butterfly
I absolutely love the Plan mode in NC. However, a few things are missing imho. So here is my wishlist (mostly for Outline View, but some might apply to other views as well):
Scenes:
* Add new scene before/after any scene
* Collapse scenes
* Split selection into new scene
* Move scene up/down without drag'n'drop (I work on an iPad, it's a PITA)
Display in Scenes:
* Labels in Outline (could be just a simple colored dot to save space)
* Custom-POV in Outline
* Codex entries
* Some indication, what scene I was working on in Write mode
Filter:
* Filter by text (like in Grid view)
* Filter by label (would be awesome in grid and matrix view as well)
* Filter by codex entries (like in matrix view)
General:
* Show number of scenes
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Misty Duck
I really wish there was a way to see a lot more of the outline at a glance.
I'm trialing NC and moved my outline over from google docs -- but I keep going back to google docs to look at it there, because in NC I can only see one or two chapters at a time. In google docs, any scene or chapter heading can be collapsed which lets me view the chapter list for 2 entire acts on a single screen. this lets me keep the overall story arc visible while brainstorming beats for later chapters. I guess my brain needs context just like a model does...it would make a huge difference if the outline allowed collapsing the scene summaries. Even better if the outline could be full screen when the sidebar is collapsed, to minimize wrapping and let more lines be displayed on the screen
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Fern green Turtle
and find/replace.
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Pewter Butterfly
Fern green Turtle This feature seems to be in progress: https://feedback.novelcrafter.com/feedback/p/universal-search-and-replace
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Olive drab Spoonbill
Pewter Butterfly Thank goodness!
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Neighbouring Anglerfish
I would add: being able to add text
before
Act 1 Chapter 1, such as a prologue or epigraph.P
Pewter Butterfly
Neighbouring Anglerfish I use an act without enumeration for a prologue.